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Swati Parashar
Professor
School of Global StudiesAbout Swati Parashar
PhD (Politics and International Relations): Lancaster University, UK. MA (Politics and International Relations): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. BA (History Honors): Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, India.
I am Professor in Peace and Development Studies at the School of Global Studies (SGS). I serve as the co-editor of the International Feminist Journal of Politics and as an editorial board member in other journals. I co-edit the book series, Creative Interventions in Global Politics with Rowman and Littlefield, and Gender and Sexuality in Global Politics with Bristol University Press. I served as the co-program chair of the International Studies Association's annual convention in Montreal 2023.
My previous academic appointments have been at Monash University and the University of Wollongong in Australia and at the University of Limerick in Ireland. In 2017, I was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. Prior to my academic career I worked as a policy analyst in think tanks in India and Singapore.
My research and teaching interests are in feminist and postcolonial international relations, culture and religion in global politics, hunger and famines, sexual violence in peace and war, women militants and combatants, peace and development in South Asia and East Africa, race politics of aid organisations and the ethics of doing research. I welcome collaborative research opportunities and supervision in these areas.
I write social and political commentaries in various local and international media outlets and my public engagements focus on development, conflict and violence. I run my own blog (www.kaalratri.com) on women’s experiences promoting the idea of ‘solidarity beyond borders’.
Originally from India, I am widely travelled and have lived in multicultural contexts in Asia, Europe and Australia. I am an enthusiastic test cricket fan and occasionally dabble in score predictions and gendered analysis of this most colonial of sports. Life outside the academic world is enriched by Hindustani classical music, ghazals and vintage Bollywood, and cooking for friends and family.
I am fluent in Hindi and English, can understand and speak Maithili, Urdu and Bengali. I also understand basic Swedish and learning the language for more fluency.
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Memory and justice after famines: an
introduction
Camilla Orjuela, Swati Parashar
Third World Quarterly - 2023 -
Introduction: Setting the
stage
Oscar Abedi Dunia, Maria Eriksson Baaz, Swati Parashar, Anju Oseema Maria Toppo, Mats Utas, James B.M. Vincent, Karin Elfving
Facilitating Researchers in Insecure Zones: Towards a More Equitable Knowledge Production - 2023 -
The need of change: What, how and
who?
Oscar Abedi Dunia, Maria Eriksson Baaz, Anju Oseema Maria Toppo, Swati Parashar, Mats Utas, James B.M. Vincent
Facilitating Researchers in Insecure Zones: Towards a More Equitable Knowledge Production - 2023 -
Worlding Encounters: Indian Spirituality and Anti-Colonialism in the Life and Thoughts of "the Mother" (Mirra
Alfassa)
Ravi Dutt Bajpai, Swati Parashar
Global Studies Quarterly - 2023 -
Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties: the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research
practices
O. Abedi Dunia, M. Eriksson Baaz, A. O. Maria Toppo, Swati Parashar, M. Utas, J. B. M. Vincent
International Journal of Social Research Methodology - 2023 -
Challenging Institutional Racism in International Relations and Our Profession: Reflections, Experiences, and
Strategies
A. Delatolla, M. Rahman, D. Anand, M. Caesar, T. Haastrup, N. M. Adiong, Swati Parashar, J. Youde
Millennium-Journal of International Studies - 2021 -
Colonial legacies, postcolonial ‘selfhood’ and the (un)doing of
Africa
Swati Parashar, Michael Schulz
Third World Quarterly - 2021 -
The 'state' of postcolonial development: China-Rwanda 'dependency' in
perspective
A. F. Lisimba, Swati Parashar
Third World Quarterly - 2021 -
Famines: ‘Slow’ Violence and Gendered
Memorialisation
Swati Parashar, Camilla Orjuela
Tarja Väyrynen, Swati Parashar, Élise Féron & Catia Cecilia Confortini (eds): Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research - 2021 -
Race and racism in narratives of insecurity: from the visceral to the
global
M. E. Baaz, Swati Parashar
Critical Studies on Security - 2021 -
How Goddess Durga Pushes Us To Break free from
Binaries
Swati Parashar, Prabha Rani
She The People - 2020 -
Populisms in the Age of
(anti)Globalizations
Swati Parashar, Maria Stern
Blogal Studies - 2020 -
'Adi Darshan’: The only way to save the
planet
Swati Parashar
Indian Express - 2020 -
Recognizing Hunger Amidst a Pandemic: Insights from
India
Swati Parashar
Blogal Studies - 2020 -
Supreme Court order on coparcenary rights is enormously
welcome
Hena Singh, Swati Parashar
Indian Express - 2020 -
India in the ‘Asian Century’: Thinking like a
hegemon?
Ravi Dutt Bajpai, Swati Parashar
Hegemony and World Order: Reimagining Power in Global Politics, edited by Tom Casier, Piotr Dutkiewicz and Jan Aart Scholte - 2020 -
Old Narratives, New Methods: UNSCR 1325 and the
WPS
Swati Parashar
Frauen*solidarität (Women’s Solidarity), Austrian feminist magazine - 2020 -
Gendering War and War
Bodies
Swati Parashar
International Catalan Institute for Peace - 2020 -
Conflicting Identities: The Nexus between Masculinities, Femininities and Violent Extremism in
Asia
Katherine Brown, Harmonie Toros, Swati Parashar
UNDP and UN Women - 2020 -
Gopaldas ‘Neeraj’: The Romantic
Rebel
Swati Parashar, Ravi Dutt Bajpai
Indian Express - 2020 -
International Women’s Day
Interviews
Swati Parashar
Blogal Studies - 2020 -
Justice in the Nirbhaya
Verdict
Swati Parashar
Blogal Studies - 2020 -
Interview with Swati
Parashar
Swati Parashar
E-IR - 2020 -
The Covid-19 Opportunity: Creating More Ethical and Sustainable Research
Practices’,
Swati Parashar, Maria Eriksson Baaz, David Mwambari, Oscar Abedi Dunia, Anju Oseema Maria Toppo, James Vincent
Social Sciences Research Council - 2020 -
Mohammed Rafi: The finest of the bygone
era
Swati Parashar
Indian Express - 2020 -
Why Feminists Must Appreciate Small Town Masculinities in Films Like Chaman
Bahar
Swati Parashar, Prabha Rani
She the People TV - 2020 -
Nobel Peace prize to World Food Programme recognises hunger as violation of human
rights
Swati Parashar, Camilla Orjuela
Indian Express - 2020 -
Blogal Studies in 2020 and
Beyond
Johannes Theodor Aalders, Dustin Johnson, Elizabeth Olsson, Swati Parashar
School of Blogal Studies - 2020 -
Rethinking Silence, Voice and Agency in Contested Gendered
Terrains
Swati Parashar, Jane L. Parpart
2019 -
India in the ‘Asian century’: Thinking like a
hegemon?
Swati Parashar, Ravi Dutt Bajpai
Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute - 2019 -
Research Brokers, Researcher Identities and Affective Performances: The insider/Outsider
Conundrum
Swati Parashar
Civil Wars - 2019 -
Why we blog and you should
too!
Johannes Theodor Aalders, Elizabeth Olsson, Swati Parashar
School of Blogal Studies - 2019 -
This is a war on
women
Swati Parashar
Indian Express - 2019 -
Don’t blame the
mandate
Swati Parashar
Indian Express - 2019 -
The Gendered Grammar of Modern States and Why it
Matters
Swati Parashar
Disorder of Things - 2019 -
Famines, Gendered Violence and Nationbuilding: The Australian
Experience
Swati Parashar
Blogal Studies - 2019 -
#MeToo: More than Social Media Confessions, Less than a Movement for Gender
Justice?
Swati Parashar
Blogal Studies - 2019 -
The #MeToo Movement and Postcolonial Feminist Dilemmas: Reflections from
India
Swati Parashar
Blogal Studies - 2019 -
Rescuing Gandhi from multiple
appropriations
Swati Parashar
Blogal Studies - 2019 -
Why Zaira Wasim’s actions have far reaching consequences for young Muslim
women
Swati Parashar, Prabha Rani
Indian Express - 2019 -
Introduction: Rethinking the Power of Silence in Insecure and Gendered
Sites
Swati Parashar, Jane L. Parpart
Rethinking silence, voice, and agency in contested gendered terrains / edited by Jane L. Parpart and Swati Parashar. - 2019 -
Silence and Indigenous Women’s Resistance: Jani Shikar Among the Adivasis of
Jharkhand
Swati Parashar, Anju Oseema Maria Toppo
Rethinking silence, voice, and agency in contested gendered terrains / edited by Jane L. Parpart and Swati Parashar. - 2019 -
The WPS "Agenda": A Postcolonial
Critique
Swati Parashar
The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security Edited by Sara E. Davies and Jacqui True - 2019 -
Lily Ling: A Life of Courage and
Compassion
Swati Parashar
Blogal Studies - 2019 -
Revisiting Gendered States – Feminist Imaginings of the State in International
Relations
Swati Parashar, J. Ann Tickner, Jacqui True
2018 -
Gender and resistance in Kashmir: old paradigms, new
approaches
E. Brannlund, Swati Parashar
International Feminist Journal of Politics - 2018 -
Competing masculinities, militarization and the conflict in
Kashmir
Swati Parashar
International Feminist Journal of Politics - 2018 -
The Postcolonial/Emotional State: Mother India's Response to Her Deviant Maoist
Children
Swati Parashar
Revisiting Gendered States Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations - 2018 -
Introduction: Feminist Imaginings of 21st Century Gendered
States
Swati Parashar, J. Ann Tickner, Jacqui True
Revisiting Gendered States Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations - 2018 -
Terrorism and the postcolonial
‘state’
Swati Parashar
Routledge handbook of postcolonial politics / edited by Olivia U. Rutazibwa and Robbie Shilliam. - 2018 -
Patthalgarhi challenges the Republic in its own
backyard
Swati Parashar, Anju Oseema Maria Toppo
Indian Express - 2018 -
The ‘Gharwapasi’ of Padma Bhushan Father Camille
Bulcke
Swati Parashar
Indian Express - 2018 -
Development’s new ally in tribal India: Sabka Vikaas, Sabka
Vivaah
Swati Parashar
Indian Express - 2018 -
Why are children’s bodies battlefields of communal and family
wars?
Swati Parashar, Bina D'Costa
Indian Express - 2018 -
When women are branded as witches and
brutalised
Swati Parashar
Indian Express, 10 aug 2017 - 2017 -
Combatants for Life: Women LTTE
Cadres
Swati Parashar
Indian Express - 2017 -
Feminist Foreign Policy: The South Asia
Conundrum
Swati Parashar, Bina D'Costa
Journal of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy - 2017 -
Lording it over the
bastion
Swati Parashar
Indian Express - 2017 -
The case for colonialism raises an academic
furore
Swati Parashar
Indian Express - 2017 -
Hyper masculine ire is reserved for women who dare challenge
orthodoxies
Swati Parashar
Indian Express - 2017 -
(En)Gendering the Maoist Insurgency in India: Between Rhetoric and
Reality
Swati Parashar, J. A. Shah
Postcolonial Studies - 2016 -
Feminism meets Postcolonialism: Rethinking Gender, State and Political
Violence
Swati Parashar
Postcolonial Studies - 2016 -
Women and militant
wars
Swati Parashar
2014